Apple announced Wednesday that its App Store facilitated an estimated $643 billion in billings and sales in 2019, according to a new study commissioned by the tech giant. The sales figure marks a 24% jump from last year, as many consumers […]
U.S.-based cybersecurity firm FireEye announced Wednesday that it’s selling its products business, including the FireEye name, to a consortium led by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close by the end […]
Cryptology Asset Group, a Malta-based crypto asset and venture investment firm, announced today that it’s investing $100 million over the next two years into crypto-related venture funds. In a statement, Cryptology said it plans to focus on first-time funds and emerging managers, […]
Yesterday, the Internet was ablaze after thousands of emails of Dr. Anthony Fauci were published online. The emails, which spanned from January to June 2020, were first obtained by The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). […]
Oil and gas giant Total has rebranded as TotalEnergies to mark its shift from crude oil to renewable energy sources. The company shareholders also voted overwhelmingly in favor of its rebrand as TotalEnergies to mark its shift to renewable energy. Along with […]
In January 2017, just 10 days before Trump’s inauguration, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that there will be a challenge to the coming Trump administration in the arena of infectious diseases. He said the administration will face a “Suprise Outbreak.” In a […]
With non-fungible token (NFT) mania sweeping across the Internet, new startups are answering the challenge to meet the growing demands for specialty NFT marketplaces. Even GameStop, the video game chain with brick-and-mortar game stores, wants a piece of the action. As we reported last […]
As employers scramble to fill open jobs, many companies are turning to EdTech startups to train new people and bring them to the workforce. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the training boom is Guild Education, a Denver, Colorado-based EdTech startup […]
Oak9 is a Chicago-based tech startup that provides a cybersecurity SaaS platform for developers. Backed by a seed round of $5.9 million in funding, Oak9 today announced the launch of its Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security platform to help businesses accelerate […]
In artificial intelligence, the use of synthetic data is critical for businesses due to privacy, product testing, and training machine learning algorithms. As such, synthetic data does not contain any personal information. Instead, it contains sample data that has a similar […]
Just like peeling the onion one layer at a time, the truth about the origin of coronavirus is slowly unraveling. As experts comb through hundreds of pages of Fauci’s emails obtained by The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News through the Freedom […]
For over a year, we’ve been questioning the effectiveness of masks in stopping the spread of coronavirus. As we reported here and here, people have been criticized, demonized, and de-platformed for asking this simple question. Now, it turned out that […]
If you’ve been paying attention to what’s trending on Twitter this morning, the first thing you will notice is that Dogecoin is trending again. Unlike the previous #DogeCointotheMoon hashtag, this time, it’s #DogeCoinTo1Dollar hashtag that has received about 30,000 tweets, as […]
Mobile gaming continues to explode worldwide and represents one of the fastest-growing forms of digital entertainment, accounting for 52% of the global games market, which reached $177.8 billion in value in 2020 and is expected to surpass $200 billion in […]
E-commerce giant Etsy announced Wednesday that it is buying Gen-Z-focused fashion reseller Depop for $1.63 billion as part of its effort to attract younger shoppers. Depop is a U.K.-based second-hand fashion marketplace app that caters to a younger audience. Founded in 2011 […]
Over the last 14 months, people have been discredited and de-platformed for questioning the origin of the COVID-19 and also for reporting about the theories that the deadly coronavirus might have originated and escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology […]
Cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase announced today that its Visa debit card has now been integrated with Apple Pay and Google Pay to make it easier for its users to spend crypto at home and on the go starting this week. According […]
No day goes by without headlines about cyber-attacks and data breaches. Just last month, cyber hackers successfully hacked into Colonial Pipeline Co, the operator of America’s largest fuel pipeline system that takes fuel from the refineries of the Gulf Coast to the […]
Remittances into low and middle-income countries were worth $508 billion in 2020, according to an estimate from the World Bank. Early this month, Wise (formerly TransferWise) teamed up with Google Pay to allow users in the U.S. to send money to […]
Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are all the rage these days. In 2021 alone, there are 330 IPOs, according to data from the SPAC insights website, SPACAnalytics.com. SPAC is a category of companies that are created and listed on the stock market […]
